"We've often talked about the benefits that AWS's scale and focus creates for our customers. Our ability to lower prices again now is an example of this principle at work," the company boasted, noting that this is the 42nd price reduction since 2008.

Amazon also announced that the U.S. Department of Defence approved authorization for more governmental agencies to use Amazon's various cloud services.

"We look forward to continuing to demonstrate the security and reliability of the AWS Cloud so that an even broader set of DoD customers can use our services to reduce costs and innovate for their missions," Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, said in a statement.

Stephanie began as a PCMag reporter in May 2012. She moved to New York City from Frederick, Md., where she worked for four years as a multimedia reporter at the second-largest daily newspaper in Maryland. She interned at Baltimore magazine and graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (in the town of Indiana, in the state of Pennsylvania) with a degree in journalism and mass communications.
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